Re: suggestion: -newer-than option that takes a date

On 3/21/06, Eric Hanchrow <offby1blarg.net> wrote:
> find 4.1.20 takes a "-newer" option that lets
me specify a file; find will then
> tell me about files that are newer than it.  But I
often want to find files that
> are newer than a particular date; in order to get what
I want, I have to create
> a temporary file, and use "touch" to set its
last-mod timestamp to the date that
> I want, and then give that temporary file's name to the
"-newer" option.  This
> seems a bit kludgy; it would be convenient if
"find" could parse dates itself,
> and simply allow me to give the date I want as an
argument.

This feature was implemented in the findutils-4.3.x code in
CVS, yesterday.

James.


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